Answers Quote by Neil Gaiman

“I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or…

— Harold Ross

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or…

— Harold Ross

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written,"…

— Andrew Davies

“A story is a letter the author writes to himself”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

What brought me to the table was Raymond Chandler and, to a lesser degree, Ross Macdonald and Dashiell Hammett. I was basically inspired to…

— Michael Connelly

“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“I hear you're a writer,' said 2040..."What are you writing about?' Not liking to discuss my writing with strangers, I had been privately auditioning…

— Phoebe Damrosch

I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.

— John Darnielle

I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I…

— Carl Reiner

“Years ago I conducted a course in fiction writing at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, and we wanted such distinguished and busy…

— Dale Carnegie

In college, I wrote maybe three short stories.

— Colson Whitehead

I've been writing stories since I was 12. 'Writer's Digest' was one of my writing teachers, actually.

— Laurell K. Hamilton